Digital agents gave us intelligence without a body. Physical AI will give a body to intelligent agents.
Elon Musk is going all-in on Optimus. DeepSeek explicitly states that embodied intelligence is the final destination of their roadmap. And the market is already filling with dozens of humanoid prototypes.
We are not merely observing a new technology. We are watching the moment when artificial intelligence first leaves the screen and begins transforming the physical world as radically as electricity or the internet once did.
The question is no longer whether this will happen. The question is who will be ready when it does.
The above is a short clip from a concise essay on where we are now with physical AI and where we will be soon. ABN
